GeForce 8300 vs GTX 660 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking731not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.86no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGK104C78
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date22 August 2012 (12 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores115216
Core clock speed823 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed888 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,540 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate85.254.000
Floating-point processing power2.046 TFLOPS0.048 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs968

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth179.2 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 August 2012 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 40 Watt

GTX 660 OEM has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 8300, on the other hand, has 225% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 660 OEM and GeForce 8300. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
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